Petition from Stephen Winchester and Others, circa 11 March 1843
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Source Note
and 71 others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, ca. 11 Mar. 1843; unidentified handwriting; signatures of petitioners; endorsements in handwriting of ; notation in handwriting of ; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
Document Transcript
To the Honorable City Council of
We, the undersigned, Petitioners (desirous of promoting the general good of and vicnity) would represent to your Honorable <Body> the inconvenience <under> which the People in this part of the City labour, on account of being shut out from the on the <South> West, and otheres, by being closed in from the Prairie, on the East, to hope you will grant this Petition, which is to order Winchister Street opened from Parley street South to <the> . And by so doing benefit those whose land it intersects, and confer a favour on the Petitioners. As in duty bound will Ever Pray
| Harmon Cutler | |
| Stephen Winchester Jr | |
| Francillo Durfey | |
| Reuben Atwood | Daniel Carter |
| Levi Fifield | Elisha Edwards |
| E M Kimball | H. Tate. |
| Chancy Gaylord | George Scholes |
| Guy C Barnum | |
| Job. V Barnum | Benj[ami]n Brown |
| J. S. Johnston | Lorenzo Brown |
| Newman G. Blodget[t] | James Flanigan |
| Stephen Hales | |
| Jared Porter | |
| Stephen Hales Senr | Joseph Huthngson |
| James McClelan | Joseph Brotherton |
| John Creig |
[p. [1]]
| B. R. Bentl[e]y | James [illegible] |
| George W Hickerson | |
| James Woolsey | |
| Robert Pixton | Stephen Luce— |
| Francis Clark | Daniel G Luce |
| George Colemen | Danford Attwood |
| Wm Carmichael | |
| Chas E Spencer | |
| Jno Oakley | |
| John Herrington | |
| B. T. Mitchell | |
| Henry Sanders | |
| John Alston | |
| John Edger | |
| Nelson McCarty | |
| Joseph S Murdock | |
| Armstead Moffett | |
| Chandler Holbrook | |
| Jacob Peart | |
| Abel Lamb | |
| Joseph F Palmer | |
| Shadrach Driggs | |
| Samuel Simpson | |
| Alexander Simpson | |
| Abraham Washburn | |
| F. Mulford | |
| Samuel Eggleston |
<No 5— refd to Committee of public grounds.—>
<Petn. rejected April 15th. 1843.>
<Report unfavorable> [p. [2]]
Footnotes
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Signatures of petitioners.
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Endorsements in handwriting of James Sloan.
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Notation in handwriting of George A. Smith, chairman of the committee of public grounds.
